Dead Island 2

Deep Silver's Decaying California Gets More Than A Little Bloody

At E3, Deep Silver showed off a cinematic trailer for a proper Dead Island sequel. Under the care of new developer Yager, this updated take on the melee zombie slasher looks to include some smart tweaks to the formula.

One of the things that strikes us immediately is a more balanced approach to firearms. In past Dead Island titles, guns were a rarity. The melee crafting system (still clearly in place) was the centerpiece. Now, it looks like guns will be the subject of your workbench experiments, too.

Dead Island 2 is here at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. We'll be playing some new content this week and bringing you updated impressions. For more, be sure to check out our preview from E3.

Deep Silver is releasing the title in 2015 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.

As a huge fan of the original Dead Island and a bigger fan of Spec Ops: The Line I think Deep Silver made an extremely smart decision putting this franchise in the hands of Yager.. I'm stoked to get my hands on this!

A lot of ppl like the new direction for dead island 2, but i feel like this game tries to hard to be "FUN" like dead rising, when the selling point of the first one was this gore world turn to the worst, but it wasen't a very good game by the way. (the trailer for the first one made the sales!)